Please Help - Company are leaving us without fund for Xmas !!!

skintandscared_2

ok, so you've just been paid on 28th November. If you are monumentally careful in the next couple of weeks, will there be enough from that for some presents and the Christmas dinner? Some supermarkets are doing amazing deals on the "dinner" stuff - eg Iceland, and you can get the whole meal for next to nothing.

How old is your child? Young enough to not really know what day Christmas Day is, and you can postpone it until the day after payday?! You adults can go without presents to each other.

At the end of the day, if you had been paid on 21st December and spent all that wage on Christmas presents and food, how would you get through January? Whatever you would have done then to get by, you need to do now instead!

LannieDuck

getmore4less wrote: »

how do you tell your child santa didnt come this year because you got no money.


tell them the truth

there is no santa.

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LannieDuck

gander2013 wrote: »

How are we going to buy xmas food, xmas presents, how do you tell your child Santa didnt come this year because you got no money.

Do you have time to get in a quick car boot sale? Could you borrow £100 from friends and family with the promise to pay them back when your pay comes through? Do you have a pawn shop that you could use to raise some money?

...and were you really planning to buy everything for christmas between 21st Dec and 25th?

paddedjohn

OP, if your employers are in the mire now and need you to work more but change the pay dates, are you sure they will still be there to pay you on the 28th and not have folded

SarEl

paddedjohn wrote: »

OP, if your employers are in the mire now and need you to work more but change the pay dates, are you sure they will still be there to pay you on the 28th and not have folded

The employer hasn't changed the pay date! The pay date is 28th of the month and always was. The employer promised to pay a week early on 21st, but then said that they wouldn't be. The first post does make it clear that being paid on 21st was bringing ir forward from normal pay day. There is nothing to infer in them not doing so other than possibly, either (a) some staff objected (because it really doesn't help a lot of people to get paid early and have an extra week to cover - because they spend what they have and if they have more they sepend more) or (b) payroll can't be brought forward.

denla

LannieDuck wrote: »

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paddedjohn

SarEl wrote: »

The employer hasn't changed the pay date! The pay date is 28th of the month and always was. The employer promised to pay a week early on 21st, but then said that they wouldn't be. The first post does make it clear that being paid on 21st was bringing ir forward from normal pay day. There is nothing to infer in them not doing so other than possibly, either (a) some staff objected (because it really doesn't help a lot of people to get paid early and have an extra week to cover - because they spend what they have and if they have more they sepend more) or (b) payroll can't be brought forward.

Where in the opening post does the OP state that they normally get paid on the 28th? I normally get paid on the 24th but this month will be on the 21st

SarEl

paddedjohn wrote: »

Where in the opening post does the OP state that they normally get paid on the 28th? I normally get paid on the 24th but this month will be on the 21st

Occupational hazard of lawyering - reading what other people don't see! OP said "Expotent is the owner of the company who has apparently made this decision with the excuse that it would benefit us between the 21st Dec - 28th Jan as thats a long period of time ( although for the last 12 years its been paid before !!!)". Hence, 28th January is pay day. By any definition of what pay day is - 28th of the month or last Monday in the month or even every X weeks, if the 21st was not an early pay date then the entire thread makes no sense at all! The pay cannot be owed before Christmas, otherwise the issue would be very different.

Your employer isn't obliged to pay you before 24th - it is mostly for their convenience and possibly partly for yours that they are doing so - but they don't have to pay you until 24th. If they had, as the OP's employer did, promised to pay you on 18th and didn't - there wouldn't be anything you could do about them changting their mind, because your pay is due on 24th - not the 18th or any other date before that.

Mischa8

gander2013 wrote: »

Hiya

Please help us.

We work for a well known bed retailer who has been having finicial difficulties staying afloat.

We were advised a month ago we would be paid on 21st Dec and asked to work Sundays etc to help out the company, ( 7 day weeks) , so everyone has done this on the promise we would get paid 21st. With the Sundays completed we now been told we not being paid till Dec 28th !!!! How are we going to buy xmas food, xmas presents, how do you tell your child Santa didnt come this year because you got no money.

We have taken the way we been treated on the chin this year.

We had our bonus cut, we had to work all the jubliee bank holidays etc,

Expotent is the owner of the company who has apparently made this decision with the excuse that it would benefit us between the 21st Dec - 28th Jan as thats a long period of time ( although for the last 12 years its been paid before !!!)


The reality is the figures for the company go out in Dec, so if we got paid before it would look bad on the income.

Surely there is a moral obligation to this, how can we get presents for our kids !! They had it black and white in an email stating it would be the 21st.

Please help us, we reallly need some advise. Lots of worried and upset employees

I've always bought presents in advance (started October and have some savings put by for then too). Even cards I use any left over from last year.

If you're careful then yes, you can buy presents now on CC and pay off within 1 month so you don't get interest charges.

As everyone else says, try various money saving boards here. Tons of freebie/DIY presents and/or codes for discounts, news of sales etc.

Concentrate on what needs to be paid now - eg fuel bills etc - if you really need to, then give them a miss until next month. Rather than do usual shops in supermarket either try Lidl/Aldi and/or buy non branded or basics ranges. Try to cut down on heating bills this month if you can etc.

As someone else pointed out, you've only just got paid presumably so it should not be that hard.

Mischa8

LannieDuck wrote: »

Do you have time to get in a quick car boot sale? Could you borrow £100 from friends and family with the promise to pay them back when your pay comes through? Do you have a pawn shop that you could use to raise some money?

...and were you really planning to buy everything for christmas between 21st Dec and 25th?

I wouldn't necessarily borrow off family or pawn stuff. Pawn shop doesn't exactly bring less worry. And family may be equally hard up this time of year.

But I would do a boot sale and/or Ebay. Tons of free listings days on Ebay.